Madagascar split from the supercontinent of Gondwana about 150 million years ago. As a result, most of the living creatures in Madagascar are unique to the ecosystems in the island. Madagascar: The Last Inheritor of Gondwana is a documentary that does …
02.21.2012
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02.21.2012
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Madagascar split from the supercontinent of Gondwana about 150 million years ago. As a result, most of the living creatures in Madagascar are unique to the ecosystems in the island. Madagascar: The Last Inheritor of Gondwana is a documentary that does …
02.21.2012
Categories: Africa, andres barrera, biodiversity, environment, film, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, islands, Madagascar, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Madagascar split from the supercontinent of Gondwana about 150 million years ago. As a result, most of the living creatures in Madagascar are unique to the ecosystems in the island. Madagascar: The Last Inheritor of Gondwana is a documentary that does …
02.21.2012
Categories: Africa, Agriculture, Bushmeat, community-based conservation, conservation and poverty, conservation finance, conservation refugees, critically endangered species, deforestation, development, economics, environment, environmental economics, global warming, governance, greenhouse emissions, happy-upbeat environmental, Home Wind Power, illegal logging, in-situ conservation, interview, invertebrates, islands, jeremy hance, lemurs, Madagascar, Mammals, Parks, povery alleviation, primates, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforest logging, rainforests, reforestation, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, sustainable development, tropical forests, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
For anyone who works in conservation in Madagascar, confronting the complex difficulties of widespread poverty is a part of the job. But with the wealth of Madagascar’s wildlife rapidly diminishing— such as lemurs, miniature chameleons, and hedge…
02.17.2012
Categories: Africa, apes, central africa, chimps, congo, Elephants, environment, global warming, gorillas, greenhouse emissions, happy-upbeat environmental, Home Wind Power, in-situ conservation, jeremy hance, Mammals, Parks, primates, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, rainforests, Republic of the Congo, saving rainforests, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, tropical forests, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
The Republic of the Congo has expanded its Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park by 37,295 hectares (144 square miles) to include a dense swamp forest, home to a population of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) that show no fear of humans. Known as the Goualougo Tr…
02.16.2012
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Globally, agriculture accounts for 92 percent of all freshwater use, a new study shows.
02.16.2012
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Scientists have discovered four new species of super-tiny chameleons in Madagascar, according to a new paper in PLoS ONE. The smallest of the new species, Brookesia micra, is found only on the small island of Nosy Hara and has been dubbed the smallest …
02.15.2012
Categories: Africa, animal behavior, Animal behvaior, Antarctica, apes, big cats, biodiversity, biodiversity crisis, Brazil, camera trapping, carnivores, Cats, conservation finance, cryptic species, cryptozoology, environment, forests, Gabon, global warming, great cats, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, in-situ conservation, Indonesia, jeremy hance, Liberia, Mammals, media, orangutans, primates, public relations, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, rainforest destruction, rainforest logging, rainforests, saving rainforests, saving species from extinction, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, South America, southeast asia, species discovery, technology and conservation, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, top predators, West Africa, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
I must confess to a recent addiction: camera trap photos. When the Smithsonian released 202,000 camera trap photos to the public online, I couldn’t help but spend hours transfixed by the private world of animals. There was the golden snub-monkey (Rhi…
02.10.2012
Categories: Africa, Agriculture, Amazon, amazon destruction, Amazon rainforest, ancient civilizations, Archeology, central africa, climate change and forests, congo, deforestation, environment, forests, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, impact of climate change, jeremy hance, rainforest, rainforest agriculture, rainforest destruction, rainforests, savannas, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, tropical forests, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Three thousand years ago (around 1000 BCE) several large sections of the Congo rainforest in central Africa suddenly vanished and became savannah. Scientists have long believed the loss of the forest was due to changes in the climate, however a new stu…
02.09.2012
Categories: Africa, environment, food crisis, Food Prices, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, hunger, jeremy hance, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, South Sudan, United Nations, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) have warned that South Sudan is facing a food crisis and that immediate action is needed to stave off a disaster. Currently 4.7 million people do not have enough to eat in Sou…
